Wow! That makes me think of my first reading of LoTR. I needed to escape the real world, and couldn't have found a better place. It was the year after I read the Hobbit for that freshman english, oral book report. In late January, my big brother ( he was 19, I was 15) went out one night and never came home! His Corvair broke down on the highway and he was struck by several vechicals when he got out of the car. It was hit and run, the first car never stopped. [img]smilies/frown.gif[/img] My parents crawled into their shell for a good two years after that, and I was left alone to wonder. I picked up FoTR, went to Middle Earth, and stayed there for most of that awful year. I'd just read and reread it, and it never let me down. I was so lucky to have those books for my escape! [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]
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